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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the
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, the Eighth day of March in the Nineteenth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Richard Payne
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William Hart
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Sutton
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Samuel Gold
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Edmond James
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Francis
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Parsons
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duty sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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James Barton
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laboring
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under a grievous Disease of Body, to wit, a Fever, and by
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the violence of the said Fever being Delirious and out of
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his Mind, on the Seventh day of March in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
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aforesaid, in the Dwelling House of
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Thomas Wilson
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there
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Situate, with a certain Caseknife made of Iron and Steel
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which he the said
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then and there had and held
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in his right hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the said
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James
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did then and there strike a\stab and penetrate,
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thereby then and there giving unto himself the said
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James
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, so being Delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid
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with the Case knife aforesaid in and upon the Throat or Gullet
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of him the said
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James Barton
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one mortal Wound of the length
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of four Inches and of the Depth of one Inch, of which said mortal
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Wound he the said
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then and there instantly died.
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
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that the said
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by reason of the Fever aforesaid being
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Delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid, in Manner and by the
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Means aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the
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said Coroner, as the said
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on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their
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Year and Place abovementioned.
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